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Names/sources/anything?

by teamhappy 12y ago

X-Istence 12y ago
Apparently NetFlix follows -CURRENT.
- icantthinkofone 12y ago
  Define "follow". My company "follows" development but does not run production servers with it.
  - mikecb 12y ago
    I found only an unverified but specific claim in an ars forum thread that they run current on their CDN: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1262749&start=200 http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1262749&sta...
  - X-Istence 12y ago
    This was a comment I pulled off my Twitter timeline. Hence the apparently.
    - tptacek 12y ago
      Same.
      - bsdimp 12y ago
        Netflix has said publicly that they run FreeBSD 10 stable. Here's a slide deck from 2013 that says they were running FreeBSD 9 at the time.
- emaste 12y ago
  There's a lot of public evidence of NetFlix's use of FreeBSD and their desire to generally stay up-to-date. I'm not aware of any credible statement that they're actually on -CURRENT though, and even if they were at some point they may not have updated since then. They are heavily involved in FreeBSD development and I'm sure they're keeping on top of developments in -CURRENT, but I believe they are not using affected versions anywhere in production.
  - bsdimp 12y ago
    You can find the following slides from BSDCan 2013 that state Netflix runs FreeBSD 9. https://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/Netflix-BSDCan-20130515.pdf https://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/Netflix-BSDCan-20130515.p...
- barkingcat 12y ago
  Even if someone says they do, I don't believe it. As someone who runs -CURRENT on vm's and physical hardware, it's not stable to do anything aside from development and testing on it, and it's not meant to be stable as well on purpose. Unless Netflix enjoys filesystem wipes, file corruptions, and extremely reduced performance due to kernel level debugging flags that are enabled by default (and often can't be disabled due to ongoing development efforts), then they are not running -CURRENT. Remember, -CURRENT runs slowly because of debugging code!!

Names/sources/anything?

X-Istence 12y ago

Apparently NetFlix follows -CURRENT.

icantthinkofone 12y ago
Define "follow". My company "follows" development but does not run production servers with it.
- mikecb 12y ago
  I found only an unverified but specific claim in an ars forum thread that they run current on their CDN: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1262749&start=200 http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1262749&sta...
- X-Istence 12y ago
  This was a comment I pulled off my Twitter timeline. Hence the apparently.
  - tptacek 12y ago
    Same.
    - bsdimp 12y ago
      Netflix has said publicly that they run FreeBSD 10 stable. Here's a slide deck from 2013 that says they were running FreeBSD 9 at the time.
emaste 12y ago
There's a lot of public evidence of NetFlix's use of FreeBSD and their desire to generally stay up-to-date. I'm not aware of any credible statement that they're actually on -CURRENT though, and even if they were at some point they may not have updated since then. They are heavily involved in FreeBSD development and I'm sure they're keeping on top of developments in -CURRENT, but I believe they are not using affected versions anywhere in production.
- bsdimp 12y ago
  You can find the following slides from BSDCan 2013 that state Netflix runs FreeBSD 9. https://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/Netflix-BSDCan-20130515.pdf https://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/Netflix-BSDCan-20130515.p...
barkingcat 12y ago
Even if someone says they do, I don't believe it. As someone who runs -CURRENT on vm's and physical hardware, it's not stable to do anything aside from development and testing on it, and it's not meant to be stable as well on purpose. Unless Netflix enjoys filesystem wipes, file corruptions, and extremely reduced performance due to kernel level debugging flags that are enabled by default (and often can't be disabled due to ongoing development efforts), then they are not running -CURRENT. Remember, -CURRENT runs slowly because of debugging code!!